Another Obama Ruling, Autos Will Have To Be 55 MPG

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today’s signs of the apocalypse

Proving again my maxim that change is inevitable, but positive change is not:

Putt, putt, putt: Sticking its noise yet again where it doesn’t belong, this is what the Obama (mis)Administration did Tuesday, as reported by Bloomberg.com and passed on by Automotive News:

President Barack Obama released a final version of a rule forcing automakers to more than double average fuel economy by 2025 that includes changes benefiting Honda Motor Co. and other makers of alternative-fuel vehicles. …

The Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the proposed rule for model years 2017 to 2025 in November after reaching an agreement with automakers on the outline in July 2011. Auto executives from companies including General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Group LLC and Hyundai Motor Co. stood with Obama at the Washington Convention Center to tout the agreement, which was the basis for the final rule.

The proposed rule granted incentives to plug-in electric and plug-in electric-hybrid vehicles, with the final rule adding natural-gas-powered cars to that list. Honda sells vehicles powered by natural gas.

Obama blithely claims that ”By the middle of the next decade, our cars will get nearly 55 miles per gallon, almost double what they get today. It’ll strengthen our nation’s energy security, it’s good for middle class families and it will help create an economy built to last.”

Read the rest at The Presteblog.

WUPN: How much more will we have to take?